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I contacted someone who asked the rabbi from whom I'd heard it. It was the Chazon Ish.
(Which makes sense; he wrote a lot about free will. Fascinatingly, it was his opinion that when we pray for there to be less evil in the world, we are praying that G-d tamper with wicked people's free will. R' Moshe Feinstein disagreed.)
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I'm not sure to which Rav you're referring, but the Gemara in Masechet Shabbat 104A (Hebrew, English) states that "one who comes to defile himself is given an opening (i.e. he is permitted, but not actively helped) and one who comes to cleanse himself [...] is helped":
בא ליטמא פותחין לו בא ליטהר מסייעים אותו
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